Dear Customer

Running into July – we are offering ten (10) new bottlings from the OLD MALT CASK label – one being a terribly talked about Talisker and another being our Charity bottling on behalf of the Gurkha Benevolent Fund (see https://www.whiskyintelligence.com/2011/07/douglas-laings-annual-charity-bottling-scotch-whisky-news/ ). There are three (3) under the PREMIER BARREL label plus an ancient CLAN DENNY Grain and a dark Sherried Caol Ila from OLD & RARE.

Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK:

OMC2062 TALISKER 10 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens sweetly – moves to soft peat – barley & late smoke.
Palate: Sweet spices abound – now sweetly peated + malt and honey.
Finish: Mocha flavours feature + vanilla & now drier spiced tones (F)

OMC2063 LAPHROAIG 12 YEAR OLD
Nose: Sweetly fragrant with peated barley + late salt and citrus
Palate: Mouthcoatingly oily/ashy/tarry + late gristiness and honey
Finish: Butterscotch + demerara sugar + peat + late liquorice (F)

OMC2059 MACALLAN 18 YEAR OLD
Nose: Cclean & fresh carrying an attractively spiced toffee & honey style
Palate: Opens with a sweet, creamy quality + a barley sugar character
Finish: Remains smooth – softly spiced throughout before it tails drier (J)

OMC2051 BENRINNES SHERRY 19 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh & fragrant + warm, spiced, caramelised peaches + burnt oak
Palate: Mouth coating – sweetly spiced + a creamy butterscotch quality
Finish: Medium long – still sweet & fruity – with a lingering oak tang (J)

OMC2039 ALLT A’BHAINE – GURKHA BOTTLING 20 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh & herbal + a sweet (candy floss) and fruity (peaches) quality
Palate: Sweet, still fruity (now orange zest) carrying a barley sugar character
Finish: Remains fruity (now orange pith) – drier towards the end (J)

OMC2065 BOWMORE 21 YEAR OLD
Nose: Distinctly barley sugared + late sweet tar and camphor
Palate: Peated – with tar and cough drop style warming spices
Finish: Lightly oiled – still phenolic – with liquorice and smoke (F)

OMC2040 MACALLAN 21 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh & fragrant + a sweet citrus style + pineapple in syrup
Palate: Sweet + a (oriental?) spicy character – mellow + a lemon zeste quality
Finish: Long + a cedar wood tangy style – still sweet + ripe pear character (J)

OMC2058 ROSEBANK 21 YEAR OLD
Nose: Clean & fresh – carrying a honeyed quality + a fruity sweet style
Palate: Instantly fruity, sweet, spiced character runs to orange bitters
Finish: Long – still spicy with an oak tang + herbal quality – now running drier (J)

OMC2049 STRATHMILL 36 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fragrant with a flowery/honeyed style + a creamy sweet quality
Palate: Fresh, mellow & delicately spiced – carrying a fruit tang character
Finish: Remains light – attractively sweet – now with a cedar wood style (J)

OMC2060 TOMATIN 40 YEAR OLD
Nose: Softly spiced – lightly (lemon?) citric – honeyed and sugary.
Palate: Sweetly fruited – subtly oaked + more honey and now barley.
Finish: Carries a warming cough drop style with a late vanilla character. (F)

PREMIER BARREL Tasting Notes:

PBR0098 LAPHROAIG 11 YEAR OLD
Oh la la – what a La-Laphroaig! Briny, beachy and braw – with a proclamation of prestigiously peated panache, portraying a palpably prepossessing packet of phenols. Ppperfect! (F)

PBR0099 AUCHENTOSHAN 12 YEAR OLD
Auchentoshan! Auchentoshan! Auchentoshan! Triple distilled and worth repeating – yes, and repeating (again). Sample substantially sugary swirls of syrup with a halcyon herbal and honeyed heritage – plus a vestige of vanilla. (F)

PBR0097 DALMORE 12 YEAR OLD
A Dalmore – devoid of deficiency – to dally daily with! A fabulously focused fusillade of fructiferousness, barley and honey, multifariously made munificently manifest ….. saturated saliently by seriously significant sugar and spice. (F)

Tasting Note for CLAN DENNY Grain:

DEN0071 INVERGORDON 45 YEAR OLD
Lightly smoked initially – then the nose develops fabulously to an old fruit bowl of softly ripening pineapple, citrus, pears and apples – with a hint of sherbet. Palatewise – it is extremely sweet and heavy with macerated fruit (particularly pineapple) and vanilla custard. The finish is really long for a grain and carries soft mocha, spice and “fruit chews” flavour …. really good with an expresso! (F)

OLD & RARE Tasting Note:

OAR0134 CAOL ILA SHERRY MATURED 27 YEAR OLD
The nose opens with a rich, oily quality carrying a spicy, smoked fruit character with burnt orange peel and dark chocolate. The mouthfeel is oily and the palate remains spicy, lightly peated, then runs to soft ashes and sweet leather. The finish is long with the spicy character slowly fading to be overtaken by soft smoke. (J)

We hope you find something there for you and your customers. Meantime more great bottlings are promised as we continue our efforts – and of course we hope your sales are good and that we can be of assistance to you with these and more malts.

Best wishes

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

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